Purpose: This paper examines the quality of the Side Kick in Taekwondo and investigates the correlation between the key characteristics of the Side Kick and the professional coach’s rating, as well as the ranking of their importance. Providing coaches and players with an objective basis from our analysis will help to raise the level of Poomsae competition in foot techniques. Method: In this study, a total of 10 athletes from Taipei Longshan National High School and National Taiwan Normal University participated as the subjects. Using the videos of the athletes’ side kicks, we analyzed the importance of the judges’ ratings during the side kick stance and provided a reference for coaches and athletes in training or competition. Finally, the results were collected and systematically analyzed. Results: Seven key features of the Side Kick were analyzed, in descending order of importance, as follows: the angle between the bent knee and the torso, the average speed from the recovery process, the time between the highest point of the kick and the start of the leg retraction, the duration of the highest point of the kick, the acceleration between the completion of the knee clinch and the highest point of the kick, the angle between the heel and tiptoe of the supporting foot, and the angle between the torso and the supporting foot during the recovery process. Conclusion: 1. Research has shown that Taekwondo instructors mainly judge the quality of a Side Kick by the angle between the knee and the torso, which shows a high correlation with movement scores. 2. Among the seven key characteristics of the Side Kick, it shows that the following four characteristics will result in a higher score of the performance for the Side Kick: (1) the longer time between the highest point of the kick and the start of the recovery; (2) the smaller the angle between the torso and the supporting foot; (3) the faster the average speed of the recovery; and (4) the smaller the angle between the torso and the knee during the recovery.